Marianna Janowicz in Architectural Review: “Carehaus, the US’s first intergenerational care-based co-housing building, devised by architect Rafi Segal, with artist Marisa Morán Jahn and developer Ernst Valery, directly addresses the question of exchange of labour in the kitchen.”
The Nation’s Bryce Covert: “Someday people who need assistance might choose to live in something like Carehaus, a residence where the elderly, caregivers [and their families] live together. Artist and filmmaker Marisa Morán Jahn and architect Rafi Segal, who are launching the first Carehaus next year, started the project because of their personal experiences [with care].”
ArtForum’s Alex Fialho: “[Jahn combines] art and advocacy within and beyond gallery walls, exemplifying the possibilities of art as social practice.”
The New York Times: “[The CareForce One] film series documents a family road trip from New York to Miami, during which a mother, her son and their friends join housekeepers, nannies, caregivers and other workers along the route to explore how immigration and racial discrimination affect those jobs.”
Hyperallergic': “CareForce One Travelogues focuses on an American experience that’s not often in the foreground of popular culture: caregiving.”
Mic.com’s Gabriela Resto-Montero: “‘CareForce One Travelogues’ draws new connections between women’s work, race, and class.”
The New York Times’ Annie Correal: “[The] NannyVan aims to teach domestic workers about their rights…”
Hyperallergic: [The NannyVan is a] ”gussied-up superhero ride” and “a working diagram for other artists with a social practice to follow and build upon.”
CNN names Domestic Worker App as “one of 5 apps to change the world”
MIT Cast: “Jahn is interested in artistic interventions in non-art contexts, which is the subject of her book Byproduct. Her art is a form of serious play that demonstrates the value of injecting creative thinking into the the bloodstream of workaday culture. She introduces a trickster-like humor into public spaces and discourses, and yet it is a humor edged with political potency.”
Kamal Sinclair for Immerse News: A book authored by artist and educator Marisa Jahn, Byproduct (2010, YYZBooks), outlines “a robust culture of artist residencies and fellowships embedded in science and technology institutions in the mid-twentieth century. She noted that despite the resurgence of embedded residencies today, the history is under-chronicled, which can lead to organizations wasting cycles by reinventing the wheel.”
GOOD Magazine describes New Day New Standard as “a new public art project [..] using humor as a vehicle to educate workers, their bosses, and the public about the New York Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights…New Day New Standard turns the idea of an information hotline on its headset."
BBC Latino describes the power of New Day New Standard: "La novedad es lo que se escucha al otro lado de la línea: episodios con formato de talk show radial y en clave de humor, pensados para volver ‘digerible’ la letra dura de la regulación neoyorquina.”
After Jahn’s presentation at Obama’s White House, Chief Technology Officer, Todd Park, calls New Day New Standard "super cool.“
Fast Company calls Contratados “a storytelling tool …which helps protect migrant workers from fraud and abuse.”
The Nation’s Michelle Chen notes, “Contratados is a project that "meshes worker solidarity with digital technology in a user-friendly format—part pocket-sized know-your-rights training, part Yelp—with the the street-level sensibility of the workers’ centers that aid migrant workers on the ground in their communities.”
ArtForum’s Chloë Rossetti on Bibliobandido: "Now there are eighteen participating villages and five hundred kids involved in this whole charade.”
Joseph del Pesco in ArtPulse: “…disrupting conventions is built into [Jahn’s] politics […] and attitude toward cultural production.”
Dena Beard in Art Practical: “[Recipes for an Encounter] is like Guy Debord masquerading as Julia Child, or vice versa; its friendly instructions undermine elitist tropes, embracing the occurrence of a happy accident while maintaining a healthy distrust of empty gestures.”
Additional Selected Reviews
Selected from over 300 reviews, interviews, videos, and mentions
“Air du Temps: Carnet d’Adresses” – San Francisco.” Air France Magazine. 8/2007
Baker, Kenneth. San Francisco Chronicle: Arts & Leisure. (3/22/2002)
Beard, Dena. Book Review of “Recipes for an Encounter,” Art Practical. 3/26/2010
Berry, Colin. Interview on KPFA. (6/2004)
Bielak, Susy, and Ashley Duffalo. Walker Magazine. “A Conversation About Agonism.” 4/12/2012
Bonetti, David. “Industrial-Strength Art.” San Francisco Chronicle. 1/2001
Buucke, David. “Inside View”. Artweek. 3/2002
Cantrell, Andrea. “Artists Drop While they Shop.” CNNMoney.com. 7/20/05
Cash, Stephanie. “Bay Area Then and Now.” Art in America. 1/2006
Channel 6, Russia. Interview about “The Whale.” 4/2011
Cohn, Terri. “Emerging Alternatives for the Twenty-First Century.” ArtWeek. 7/4/04
Coombs, Gretchen. “Care for Care: Studio REV-‘s Strategies for Engagement.” Art and the Public Sphere. Vol 4, No 1 & 2. 2015
Collins, Glen. "Council Hears From Vendors … on Proposed Food Truck Restrictions." NY Times. 6/16/2010.
Cortés, Zaira. “La NannyVan de los derechos laborales recorre NYC.” La Prensa/El Diario. 5/3/2014.
Doctorow, Cory. “WoWPod: a self-contained hut for WoW players.” BoingBoing.net. 5/7/2009
Ektermann, Marin. “Viies “Postsovkhoz.” Sirp Estonia Daily News, 9/2/2005.
Finkelpearl, Tom. “Why Call it Art? The Aesthetics of Participation”. Queens Muse(um) Blog, Spring 2013.
Gangadharan, Seeta. “Digital Inclusion and Data Profiling.” New America Foundation Blog. 5/9/2012
Gopalarithinam, Ranjani. “Musical Couplets.” Fader. 09/2005, p. 62
Hansen, Heiko. “Contemporary Vehicle Design in Istanbul”, Cluster, Italy. 1/2006. p.11-15.
Healy, Beth. “State Senate Passes MA Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights.” Boston Globe. 5/8/14
Hsu, Jeremy. “WoW Pod Meets All of a Sedentary Gamer’s Biological Needs.” Popular Science. 5/1/2009
Hurwitz, Becky. “Case Study: New Day New Standard.” MIT Center for Civic Media. 5/31/2012.
Huston, Johnny Ray. “Better Homes & Galleries” San Francisco Bay Guardian. 5/2004
Jaskey, Jenny. “Thanksgiving Dinner in 5 seconds.” Rhizome.org (feature). 12/7/2009
Kiniry, Laura. “All We Can Say is WOW.” Make Magazine, vol. 19: Robots. p. 25.
Lettellier, Alexandra. “Faux Pod.” Los Angeles Times. 9/30/2009
Leaverton, Michael. "Open Source." SF Weekly. 1/20/2010
McGuire, Brydie. “Wearable Technology”, Beyond Tomorrow, Discovery Channel. 6/2006.
Meyer, Julien. “Air Portugal II at Pond.” Frieze. 2/2001
Moses, Asher. “World of Warcraft goes down the toilet.” The Sydney Morning Herald. 5/11/2009.
Nadeau, Renee. “Game womb in play at MIT.” Boston Herald. 5/17/2009
Nunes, Brian. “Picturing the Past with Marisa Jahn’s ‘NannyVan.’ Open City/Culture Strike. 8/1/2014.
Reddy, Sumathi. "Vendors, Businesses Spar Over Food-Truck Legislation." Wall Street Journal. 6/16/2010.
Rosen, David. “New Voices in Indie Media” Counterpunch (April 26, 2013)
"Street Meat Theater: Activists Fight Food-Truck Legislation." Wall Street Journal: Metropolis. 6/15/2010.
Slaton, Joyce. “Merrily We Roll Along.” San Francisco Weekly 7/4/04
Smith, Caroline. “Shopdropping.” CBC Radio, 6/26/2006
Smith, Greg. “Wow Pod.” Rhizome.org (feature). 12/21/2009
Spotlight on New Day New Standard. Tribeca Film Institute Blog. Spring 2013
Suwwan, Leila. “Artistas subvertem consume com copias.” Folha de Sao Paulo 2/10/2005
“Thanksgiving Dinner in 5 seconds.” Discovery Channel online. 5/30/2009.
Tippapart, Tida. “Pull Up to the Bumper, Baby!” Oxfam Design for Change. 8/2014T
Ultreras, Pedro. NannyVan in Univision, 6 pm news. 5/19/14
Westbrook, Lindsey. San Francisco Guardian. 7/31/02
“World of Warcraft pod.” Make Magazine. 5/6/2009
Zassenhaus, Erik. 'Art Pics: Pond.' Punk Planet (feature) (2001)Zuckerman, Ethan. DMLlearning hub. 12/2011